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[Stefan Glasenhardt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

My patch mentioned above is now included in kernel version 2.6.34-rc1 :

http://www.kernel.org/diff/diffview.cgi?file=%2Fpub%2Flinux%2Fkernel%2Fv2.6%2Ftesting%2Fpatch-2.6.34-rc1.bz2;z=2357

The patch applies cleanly to the Lucid-kernel.

I would be nice if someone would backport the patch to the Lucid-kernel.
It solves the problem completely. You only have to add the following
line to the file "/etc/modprobe.d/options.conf" :

options hid-apple iso_layout=0

The option disables the card-coded ISO-layout.

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Apple USB ISO keyboard has incorrectly swapped keys
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214786
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Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Since upgrading kernel to version 2.6.24-12.22 two keys are now swapped on my Apple USB aluminium keyboard with danish layout. Now the keys "<" and "½" are swapped and no longer matches the actual print on the keycaps.

The error is isolated to the following commit: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy.git;a=commitdiff;h=efb3031b446d441dca5b10619503ac0bba7f9748

This commit introduced a key swapping for all "ISO" type Apple keyboards. In my case this swapping is incorrect, and generally it seems like a very bad idea to perform hard coded locale specific key mapping in kernel space as this is also done several places in user space.

The included patch reverts the behavior to the default that matches the keycap printing.